MM: Swords! Maps! The Sundering Sea! We are back in Middle-earth for real!ĭS: Knew it would only be a matter of time before we got a running landscape drone shot. As much as I love the art form of television, it is undeniably easier to enter a world like Middle-earth in the darkness of a theater, just as it would be preferable to embark on this cinematic journey in the physical company of my son, who is no longer a little boy swinging swords.īut as the pandemic has taught us, remote connection is better than nothing. It’s hard not to feel a pang of nostalgia myself, as I watch with my son but also without him.
That line is uttered in “The Fellowship” by Arwen Evenstar (Liv Tyler) as she saves Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood) from the Black Riders having my son choose to emulate a female warrior filled my heart with joy. The first time I saw Danny in our backyard lifting his toy sword and declaring, “If you want him, come and claim him” in his high child’s voice, I knew I had done the right thing. So when “ The Fellowship of the Ring” came out, it seemed tailor-made for him - little people holding their own with swords and all manner of heroic knights. Tolkien as I am, though he came to them for very different reasons.Īs a child, I loved epic poetry and stories about fairies, elves and wizards from the moment he could walk, Danny loved swords and knights. Indeed, he is the only member of my family as devoted to the works of J.R.R.
But he had begged to go, and after some initial, into-my-lap-crawling terror at the sight of Gollum, he loved it no bad dreams, no residual trauma. I know, I know, perhaps not my best maternal decision. I took my son Danny to see “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” when he was not quite 5 years old.
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